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9. What do you mean participate in it?

Reply to onpatrol98 (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 03:58 PM

Dec 2013

Obamacare is just regulation of the insurance business, has nothing for doctors to participate in. If they accept BlueCross/BlueShield or any other known health insurance they are already "in it". If they want to practice period they'll have to accept their patients insurances.

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Wingnut article needs debunking: "7 out of 10 California doctors to boycott exchanges" [View all] kratos00 Dec 2013 OP

Ask to name even one. Scuba Dec 2013 #1

Where is the article? arcane1 Dec 2013 #2

#1-The 'exchanges' are where people buy insurance. How could doctors 'boycott' that? denverbill Dec 2013 #3

I've seen those articles... onpatrol98 Dec 2013 #4

What do you mean participate in it? EC Dec 2013 #9

Heck...I don't know. onpatrol98 Dec 2013 #10

All of them I saw on the exchange EC Dec 2013 #12

Much of what they are spouting is sure to be nonsense... onpatrol98 Dec 2013 #13

I always thought of them as extortionists. EC Dec 2013 #14

Written by this guy, in Washington Examiner... pkdu Dec 2013 #5

If it's from the RW Turbineguy Dec 2013 #6

LOL - Who is the numb-n-ts writing that carp. Xyzse Dec 2013 #7

I have a conservative cousin that posted on FaceBook Thor_MN Dec 2013 #8

No credible source is cited for this claim. subterranean Dec 2013 #11

Thank you! kratos00 Dec 2013 #15

It's technically true, but it's nothing new. Xithras Dec 2013 #16